单词 | wine-lees |
释义 | wine-leesn. The sediment deposited in a vessel containing wine. Also figurative. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > drink > manufacture of alcoholic drink > wine-making > [noun] > deposits argolc1386 tartarc1386 upon the lee1390 wine-leesc1400 wine-stone1526 fechia1704 white friars1745 beeswing1860 crust of wine1863 wine-crust1872 flor1873 wine ball- c1400 Lanfranc's Cirurg. 60 Aischis of wiyn lies. 1483 Cath. Angl. 419/2 Wyne lees.., tartarum, vinacium. 1585 J. Higgins tr. Junius Nomenclator 95/2 Fex vini vsta,..wine leeze. 1642 J. Vicars God in Mount 46 The wine-lees of poysoning Popish fopperies. 1739 tr. C. Rollin Anc. Hist. (ed. 2) V. 69 Their faces smeared over with wine-lees. 1765 L. Sterne Life Tristram Shandy VII. xxi. 72 The under-gardener dress'd the muleteer's hat in hot wine-lees. 1859 C. Dickens Tale of Two Cities i. v. 19 One tall joker..scrawled upon a wall with his finger dipped in muddy wine lees—Blood. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1926; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.c1400 |
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